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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

This is the second submission of a
multi-part essay by Jim V on Gun Control. Thanks Jim for the interesting
read! Its nice to see how so many anti-gun people are lucky to be able
to pay others to hold (and use in their defense) those nasty guns for
them.FerFAL

Similarly, as Aubrey Blankenship and Celia Bigelow told Piers Morgan (video and story at http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/22-year-old-schools-piers-morgan-on-guns/#yi5kmq2Ub6bbVgmH.99),
there are very good reasons, particularly for women, to have not only
guns, but specifically AR-15s. Stated the two ladies in a companion
column in the National Review, “One, they’re lightweight,” the
22-year-old Bigelow responded. “They’re quite accurate. I can shoot
them much more accurately than a handgun or a shotgun. And three … I
want a gun that can hold a lot of ammo, because if I’m faced with an
intruder or multiple intruders that come into my home, I want to make
sure I have enough ammo to get the job done, especially if they’re
armed. … I don’t have to take the time to reload… We saw a situation in
Georgia just a couple weeks ago where a mom was hiding in her attic with
her two children when an intruder entered her home. She had a handgun
that only had six rounds in it. She fired all six rounds, missed the
intruder once, hit him five times in the face and in the neck. And he
still lived.”

And given that there are around eight thousand home
invasions per year (and not one conducted by well-mannered, non-violent
Boy Scouts), with at least one in five households experiencing a
break-in at some point, the people above are just the tip of the
iceberg.

But returning to Dr. Lott, here is
Exhibit A: scarcely one week before the Colorado tragedy, a similar
situation had an opposite ending in Florida, where 71 year old Samuel
Williams stopped an armed robbery when two masked men
entered the Palms Internet Cafe around 10 p.m. Friday, July 13, 2012.
Make your own conclusion from the surveillance camera, which captures it
all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZNC2VwyaPU&feature=player_embedded#t=0s. Exhibit
B: Scarcely a month after the Colorado theatre shooting, on the
opposite side of the country, an Orange County, CA. jewelry and coin
dealer thwarted and armed robbery – and possible employee deaths – by
defending herself with her pistol. Video surveillance footage at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjXJBpV9YRI And as if this wasn’t enough, the Oregon Clackamas Town Center Mall mall
shooting – which was overshadowed by the Connecticut school shooting a
few days later – was stopped by a citizen, Nick Melti, exercising his
right of concealed carry. Full details of this incident – not reported
by the lamestream media – are at http://www.examiner.com/article/media-blackout-oregon-mall-shooter-was-stopped-by-an-armed-citizen.
At the risk of overkill (pun intended), here’s another video of a 65
yr. old woman thwarting FIVE armed robbers with her pistol in her store:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoDNJQtNVoc&feature=player_embedded#t=0s.
In fact, it appears to be the case that, as ex-gangsta rap artist
turned Christian rap singer Travis Tyler, known as Thi’sl notes, more
gun restrictions are not the answer, as this will not stop criminals
from getting guns. But listen to Thi’sl in his own words: http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2013/January/Ex-Gangsta-Rapper-More-Gun-Laws-Not-the-Answer/
(note that Thi’sl also identifies fatherlessness as a “huge role” in
gun violence, as well as the issue of mental illness). Interestingly,
Mark Mattioli, who lost his six year old son at Sandy Hook, also stated
before a gun violence task force shortly after the shooting that guns
are categorically not
the problem – rather, it is mental health issues, issues that stem from
media violence, lack of personal integrity, lack of parenting, etc. A
Mattioli video speaking to this issue is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqpzOSYqX3c&feature=player_embedded#t=8s. Ann Coulter speaks to the Mattioli video at http://www.humanevents.com/2013/04/10/coulter-liberals-go-crazy-for-the-mentally-ill/,
noting that the one critical piece missing from the leftist analysis of
gun violence is that they refuse to deal with that fact that the vast
majority of gun violence is caused by mentally ill. Says Coulter: “Mass
shootings don’t correlate with gun ownership; they correlate with not
locking up schizophrenics” and “For most of the 20th century, from 1900
to 1970, there was an average of four mass public shootings per decade.
Throughout the ’70s, as the loony bins were being emptied, the average
number of mass shootings suddenly shot up to 13. In the 3.3 decades
since 1980, after all the mental institutions had been turned into
condos, mass shootings skyrocketed to 36 on average per decade. And as
exhibits for this exact issue, see Adam Lanza, Seung-Hui Cho at Virginia
Tech, James Holmes, Jared Loughner, paranoid schizophrenic One L. Goh,
who murdered a number of people at a Christian college in 2012, Nidal
Hassan, and others. For a complete list of mentally ill committing
crimes, Coulter directs readers to E. Fuller Torrey’s book, The Insanity
Defense: How America’s Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill
Endangers Its Citizens. Fox News also does a concise expose of the issue
at http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/04/10/it-not-knives-it-not-guns-it-mental-illness-that-kills/

But
returning to the issue of the deterrence and such things as concealed
carry, it turns out that the leftist Mother Jones article claiming to
have produced its own study of all public shootings in the last 30
years, which concluded “In not a single case was the killing stopped by a
civilian using a gun,” is an outright fabrication - in looking at just
the most recent Oregon episode. And as Ann Coulter pointed out in an
article shortly after the CT shooting, found at http://www.humanevents.com/2012/12/19/ann-coulter-we-know-how-to-stop-school-shootings/
Mother Jones, in typical leftist fashion “…reaches its conclusion by
simply excluding all cases where an armed civilian stopped the shooter:
They looked only at public shootings where four or more people were
killed, i.e., the ones where the shooter wasn’t stopped.” Don’t try
this trick in a stats 101 class, or you will be flunked. Coulter’s
article provides some extremely enlightening examples of mass murders
stopped by an armed bystander:

–
Mayan Palace Theater, San Antonio, Texas, same week as the CT shooting:
Jesus Manuel Garcia shoots at a movie theater, a police car and
bystanders from the nearby China Garden restaurant; as he enters the
movie theater, guns blazing, an armed off-duty cop shoots Garcia four
times, stopping the attack. Total dead: Zero. (More details on this
theatre-shooting-that-wasn’t because the shooter was stopped by someone with concealed carry is at http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/12/the-theater-shooting-the-main-stream-media-didnt-focus-on-why/ )

–
Appalachian School of Law, 2002: Crazed immigrant shoots the dean and a
professor, then begins shooting students; as he goes for more
ammunition, two armed students point their guns at him, allowing a third
to tackle him. Total dead: Three.

–
Santee, Calif., 2001: Student begins shooting his classmates — as well
as the “trained campus supervisor”; an off-duty cop who happened to be
bringing his daughter to school that day points his gun at the shooter,
holding him until more police arrive. Total dead: Two.

–
Pearl High School, Mississippi, 1997: After shooting several people at
his high school, student heads for the junior high school; assistant
principal Joel Myrick retrieves a .45 pistol from his car and points it
at the gunman’s head, ending the murder spree. Total dead: Two.

–
Edinboro, Pa., 1998: A student shoots up a junior high school dance
being held at a restaurant; restaurant owner pulls out his shotgun and
stops the gunman. Total dead: One. (Coulter neglected to cite some other
cases, such as the high school shooting by Luke Woodham in Pearl, Miss., or the New Life Church shooting in Colorado Springs, CO., where armed volunteers stopped the mayhem immediately.

There’s
one more gunman incident Coulter also missed: On Aug. 29, 2010, and
armed gunman, Thomas Richard Cowan, entered Sullivan Central High
School in Blountville, TN., and pointed his gun at the head of the
school principal. This may well have ended up another Sandy Hook event –
except for the fact that a Sullivan County Sheriff’s Deputy, Carolyn
Gudger, was stationed at the school, and confronted the gunman with her own gun. Cowan
retreated from this confrontation, and was later killed when he pointed
his weapon at other police who had arrived since the initial
confrontation. No Sandy Hook here. That’s because there was armed
resistance.

The Marc
J. Victor article cited elsewhere in this paper adds several more
incidences to the list above, where an armed populace prevented a Sandy
Hook massacre. Victor cites a 1997 high school shooting in Pearl, MS.,
stopped when the vice principal retrieved a handgun from his truck; a
1998 middle school shooting ended when a man living next door heard
gunfire and apprehended the shooter with his shotgun; a 2002 terrorist
attack at an Israeli school was quickly stopped by an armed teacher and a
school guard; a 2002 law school shooting in Grundy, Virginia came to an
abrupt conclusion when students carrying firearms confronted the
shooter; a 2007 mall shooting in Ogden, Utah ended when an armed
off-duty police officer intervened; a 2009 workplace shooting in
Houston, Texas was halted by two co-workers who carried concealed
handguns. What part of “guns saved lives” don’t leftists get?

Let
me answer the question above, if I may. Here’s what leftists don’t get –
and which illustrates they really don’t ultimately care as much about
each precious life lost at Sandy Hook as they do their precious agenda (and yes… please do use your best Gollum voice from Lord of the Rings when you say the word leftist “precious agenda”; and no, our guns are not precious to most gun owners – rather, our freedom and liberty
are precious, and guns are simply a guarantor of that). One story –
which represents thousands of other unreported stories every year - with
the headline of Woman Hiding with Kids Shoots Home Intruder Multiple Times, illustrates the point very simply: A quick précis of the story will suffice. “A
woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times
before fleeing to safety Friday… The incident happened at a home on
Henderson Ridge Lane in Loganville around 1 p.m. The woman was working
in an upstairs office when she spotted a strange man outside a window,
according to Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman. He said she took her
9-year-old twins to a crawlspace before the man broke in using a
crowbar. But the man eventually found the family. The perpetrator opens
that door. Of course, at that time he’s staring at her, her two children
and a .38 revolver,” Chapman told Channel 2’s Kerry Kavanaugh. The
woman then shot him five times, but he survived, Chapman said. He said
the woman ran out of bullets but threatened to shoot the intruder if he
moved…”http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/woman-hiding-kids-shoots-intruder/nTm7s/
This
story has more than meets the eye. Suppose it was not just a single
home invader, but three or four – and she was a resident of shot
capacity limiting New York or another state banning those evil assault
rifles that carry too many rounds? What if she – like many of us –
wasn’t such good shot, under duress (and possible darkness), and missed
with her six rounds? Then what? While she may have to abide by the round
capacity laws, the criminal – who is already a criminal and thus doesn’t care – can carry a high capacity weapon on his side, making the law even more dangerous for the law abiding citizen – not safer.

Pam
Loman of Shawnee, OK. went through the same experience a few weeks
later, scaring off three men trying to break into her home. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/13/Oklahoma-Woman-Stops-Robbers-With-Her-Gun reports: “She
was cleaning her home on Friday when a man knocked on her front door,
while two others stayed in the car. When she did not answer the man
resorted to banging on the door. Mrs. Loman got scared and went for her
gun.“So my instinct was to go get a gun. I don’t know why, I never in my
life felt like I needed to go get a gun,” said Mrs. Loman. She had both
hands on her .32-caliber pistol when the man knocked down her door.
“And just all of a sudden, with one kick, he knocked the door completely
in. The frame came flying down. Things came flying everywhere,” she
said. “And he saw that I had the gun, and he grabbed the door handle and
pulled the door shut.” Mrs. Loman said if he did not run away and came
into the house she would have shot him.”

Below: Sidwell Friends, another gun free school – NOT
Sen. Diane Feinstein, who wants “Mr. and Mrs. America” to “turn in” their guns,(see http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=blXkl9YVoHo#t=2s where she states this ) admitted to availing herself of concealed carry for her own protection at one point – see http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B1EObqM9Z0s#t=2s . Of course, our aforementioned gun control nut NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg
has armed bodyguards at all times, and, in personal communication with a
friend and neighbor who is a recently retired senior staff member from
the Illinois State Police, he noted that at least up to 2009 when he
retired, Bill Ayers, the leftist, Obama crypto-crony who was co-founder
of the communist Weather Underground (that conducted bombings of public
buildings, including police stations, the U.S. Capitol Building, and
the Pentagon), whenever he was in a classroom teaching at Univ. of
Illinois Chicago, was always assigned to have armed state police in his classroom for protection. It’s just you, dear reader,that are left to your own (unarmed) devices when you are threatened.
And let’s not forget the ever-hypocritical gun controller Michael Moore, who also maintains armed bodyguards, one of whom was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon at New York’s JFK airport back in 2005. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,144921,00.html#ixzz2FnQC65J3
. Yes, this is the selfsame Mikey Moore who owned shared of Haliburton
(see Peter Schweizer’s book Do As I Say, Not as I Do: Profiles in
Liberal Hypocrisy) and has both an extremely expensive penthouse in NY,
as well as a massive, multimillion dollar mansion on Torch Lake, MI., as
seen below.

(Of
course, the ultimate example of hypocrisy was illustrated by NY
Governor Cuomo who stated after Sandy Hook, in granting permission for
Learjet leftist Hollywood to bring AR-15s to New York, that "There's no reason not to make a change ... to give an industry comfort, "especially ... [one] we want to do business in the state."
Apparently, Cuomo didn’t desire to hinder any of those uber-leftist,
gun-control fanatics Hollywooders from making movies that glorify the
criminal violence he's claims he’s trying to end.)

And here’s one more question: What if it is not “only” a half dozen people killed, but rather something like the horrific Beslan
School massacre in gun control-happy Russia in 2004? 334 people were
slaughtered – over half children – by Chechnyan Islamists. Good thing
everyone in the school was unarmed – right?

One
might consider – dare I quote him? – Michael Moore, in perhaps the
single lucid comment of his entire career. Regarding the Sandy Hook
massacre, he wrote in the Huffington Post: “The killer only ceased
his slaughter when he saw that cops were swarming onto the school
grounds — i.e, the men with the guns. When he saw the guns a-coming, he
stopped the bloodshed and killed himself. Guns on police officers
prevented another 20 or 40 or 100 deaths from happening. Guns sometimes
work.” Of course, Moore goes off on another deranged tangent after
this, but in this case he actually got one paragraph right. And perhaps,
with the direction our society is going, a properly secured firearm on
school premises, wielded by fully trained school staff, may be what is
needed. Why should there be a wait be for the police to arrive as more
death occurs?

In fact, police themselves, as a rule, support
civilian use of guns, and not just high profile cases such as several
sheriffs in Colorado, Utah, or the sheriff of Milwaukee, WI. Here’s what
police, themselves, think, per a questionnaire submitted to 15,000
law-enforcement personnel, asking about civilian gun use:
“When
asked what the likely outcome would have been at Aurora and Newtown had a
legally armed civilian been there, 80 percent said there would have
been fewer casualties; 6.2 percent said it would have prevented
casualties altogether. Only 5.5 percent thought it would have led to
greater loss of life.
When asked what could be done to prevent
future mass public shootings, the most popular answer — picked by 28.8
percent – was for more permissive concealed carry policies for
civilians. More aggressive institutionalization of the mentally ill was
the choice of 19.6 percent. More armed guards were favored by 15.8
percent. Of course, none of these solutions are acceptable to the gun
grabbers. Improved background checks were in fourth place, the choice of
14 percent of the respondents, followed by longer prison terms when
guns are used in violent crimes (7.9 percent). What did the
law-enforcement professionals have to say about about the left’s
favorite solutions? A meager 1.5 percent put tighter limits on weapons
sales at the top of their list. While legislative restrictions on
“assault weapons” and larger magazines didn’t even get a nod from one
out of 100 of the boys and girls in blue, it was the choice of .9
percent.
When it comes to making the public safer, including our
children, “the only professional group devoted to limiting and defeating
gun violence as part of their sworn responsibility” has the right
answer: Get more arms in the right hands. And do a better job of getting
the truly crazy off the streets.” (Cited from http://personalliberty.com/2013/04/19/a-huge-defeat-for-the-gun-grabbers/)

Dr.
Lott, the former gun control advocate turned gun supporter, documents
many thousands of similar situations where civilian guns saved lives,
but here is one woman, in her own words, discussing after the fact how
her gun saved her life: http://bcove.me/zgbghtxu. As a matter of fact, Gun Owners of America, at http://gunowners.org/sk0802.htm, cites statistics indicating guns are used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense, or around 80 times a day (other statistics estimate this number could range as low as 1.5 million, but either number is a lot!).
This includes 200,000 women a year using guns to defend themselves
against sexual abuse – in fact, here is the actual 911 recording of some
woman doing exactly that: http://www.therightscoop.com/holy-crap-911-call-of-woman-defending-herself-against-stalker-who-broke-into-her-house/. It is precisely these situations that the gun grabbers would make worse! As a matter of fact, as of 2008, armed citizens killed more violent bad guys than the police (1,527 vs. 606). Overall, guns in the United States are used 80 times more often to prevent crime than they are to take lives (http://thetruthwins.com/archives/you-wont-believe-the-crazy-things-that-are-being-said-about-gun-owners ). Cato Institute has a complete article on this topic for your further reading, Tough
Targets: When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens," In fact,
renowned author and poet Maya Angelou is a poster child (make that
“elder”) for using guns in self-defense, telling Time Magazine in 2013
she once stopped a a presumed attempted burglary at here home by firing
her gun. Said Angelou: “I do like to have guns around… I don’t
like to carry them, but I like – if somebody is going to come into my
house and I have not put out the welcome mat – I want to stop them.” http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2139706,00.html

Interestingly,
during the composition of this paper, during a radio broadcast on WMBI
radio, April 23, 2013, at 1:15 AM, a caller who identified himself as
George, the owner of a limousine company, stated something very
interesting, that corroborates the above. He noted that, as airlines at
one point prohibited people from transporting guns, criminals in Florida
would follow people who took out rental cars at airports to rob them,
knowing they would be unarmed. Just a small tidbit, lost to history, and
ignored by the politically correct – but for those murdered during these crimes, including children – the gun grabbers are complicit.

And
what happens when people are not able to arm themselves? Just ask the
citizens of Hungerford, England, where twenty years ago Michael Ryan
went on a shooting spree, killing 16 people. As no one in the town was
armed, he took over eight hours before anyone with a firearm was
alerted and able to stop the rampage. While Obama used children a stage
props, including plaintive letters from children asking him to ban guns
in his January, 2013 anti-gun dog and pony anti-gun sales pitch, he
forgot to discuss the recent cases of Kendra St. Claire, who used a gun
to protect herself from a home intruder, a mother who shot an intruder
to protect her two young sons, or an 18 year old widowed mother who shot
two intruders to protect her baby.

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